3 Types of Points – Men

There is a monster in the room…

Get ready for your jaw to hit the ground.

Rallies come in all shapes and sizes.

They can be short, medium or long. They can be grinding or attacking, and they are mixed up all over the place during a match. Short ones follow long ones, with medium ones also surfacing at any time. The random nature of the length of the point creates a natural disguise that the length does not really matter that much. Rally length has flown under the radar for far too long.

The length of a rally may seem unimportant, but that my friends, is just a beautiful illusion.

I was the tournament’s analyst at this year’s Australian Open, and examined a wealth of analytics every day, looking here, there and everywhere for the real keys to winning and losing.